【读圣经学英语】信入祂名的人,祂就赐他们权柄,成为神的儿女

约翰福音-John  1 章11~14节

1:11 祂到自己的地方来,自己的人却不接受祂。
He came to His own, yet those who were His own did not receive Him.
1:12 凡接受祂的,就是信入祂名的人,祂就赐他们权柄,成为神的儿女。
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of God, to those who believe into His name,
1:13 这等人不是从血生的,不是从肉体的意思生的,也不是从人的意思生的,乃是从神生的。
Who were begotten not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1:14 话成了肉体,支搭帐幕在我们中间,丰丰满满的有恩典,有实际。我们也见过祂的荣耀,正是从父而来独生子的荣耀。
And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality.
 
 
亮光
你若呼求祂的名而信入祂,就证明你已经接受了祂。你既接受祂,也就得着了权柄作神的儿女。这权柄是什么?就是基督自己作你的生命。作生命的基督,就是儿子名分的灵,这儿子名分的灵使你成为神的儿女。你可由两件事知道你是神的儿女:一是,你信入祂并呼求祂的名;二是,有时你很自然甘甜的呼喊『阿爸父! 』你能如此甘甜的呼叫神『阿爸父,』就证明你是祂的儿女。

 

 

十三节说出,这个生不是从血生的,不是从肉体的意思生的,也不是从人的意思生的。这里的『血』(原文,复数),表征肉身的生命;『肉体的意思,』指成为肉体后堕落之人的意思;『人的意思,』指神所创造之人的意思。我们成为神的儿女时,我们不是从我们肉身的生命、堕落的生命、或受造的生命生的;我们是从神生的,就是从非受造的生命生的。人成为神的儿女,就是有了神的生命和神的性情。

这些经文所描述的生,不是我们借父母而有天然的出生,而是我们信入主耶稣之名以后所发生的第二次出生。

 
 
Enlightenment:

 

 

If you believe in Him by calling on His name, it is proof that you have received Him. And since you have received Him, you have received the authority to become a child of God. What is this authority? It is Christ Himself as life to you. Christ as life is simply the Spirit of sonship, and this Spirit of sonship makes you God’s child. You can know that you are a child of God by two things: by the fact that you believe in Him and call on His name, and by the fact that, at times, you spontaneously and sweetly cry, “Abba, Father.” If you can call God “Abba, Father” in such a sweet way, it proves that you are His child.

As verse 13 declares, this birth is not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man. Blood (Gk., bloods) here signifies the physical life; the will of the flesh denotes the will of fallen man after man became flesh; the will of man refers to the will of man created by God. When we became a child of God, we were not born of our physical life, our fallen life, or our created life—we were born of God, the uncreated life. For human beings to become children of God is for man to have the divine life and the divine nature.

The birth described in these verses is not the natural birth which we had through our parents; it is the second birth which occurred when we believed in the name of the Lord Jesus.